In the developed countries, LOW-E glass have been popularized in large scale; the utilization rate in Germany reached 92%, and this rate in South Korea and Poland was 90% and 75% respectively.It is estimated that the LOW-E glass demand volume in the international market will exceed 1.5 billion square meters by 2017; in the next five years, the global LOW-E glass demand volume will increase at the average annual growth rate of more than 17%.

At this year’s FENSTERBAU FRONTALE, Peter Schober, who heads the Department of Structural Engineering and the Windows Division of Holzforschung Austria (HFA) in Vienna, discussed his latest research in the area of “vacuum glass”.

Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, has launched Pilkington Optimirror™ Protect Plus, a new safety mirror that provides enhanced safety capability without the need for secondary processing.